Great Depression in the United States

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    migrant workers can be hard. During The Great Depression, there were job crisis and food shortages and that affected all U.S. workers making some people migrant workers so they can try to earn money to support their families. Because of the Dust Bowl, many people had to abandon their homes because of failed farmes. The Dust Bowl started as a seven year drought and lead to dust storms. Migrant workers now have to work extremely hard and they don't have great housing. Most migrant workers became…

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    In 19th century France, many civilians born from unfortunate circumstances live the rest of their lives struggling to find the meanings of life and feelings of contentment. Money, food, and shelter are scarce. Communities are torn apart by these hardships and everyone is left empty inside. Eventually, it is discovered that love alone has the power to fill the gaping holes within their hearts. In the novel Les Miserables, Victor Hugo suggests devoting one’s life to love results in feelings of…

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    THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST The Importance of Being Earnest is one of Oscar Wilde’s most well-known plays and is known for its witty humour and the mocking of the Victorian society. Satirizing of the Victorian views on marriage and the morals and standards of the upper class creates humour in The Importance of Being Earnest. This is supported by stylistic devices and wordplays. The characters in The Importance of Being Earnest, especially Lady Bracknell, mock the snobbism of the upper class…

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    Dust Bowl Outline

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    I. Introduction a) Imagine being in the Midwest and then seeing a giant dust cloud. b) General info about Dust Bow. c) Because the Midwest became a failing region, many dreams were crushed. d) In the 1930's better known as "the dirty thirties", the dust bowl effected thousands of farmers and their families in the Southwest/Midwest. II. Body A)When the Midwest was a thriving community, people as far as New York came in hope of a better life, but soon turned downhill. 1) Land produced abundant…

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    attempted to “lure” farmers to the South and to farm as much land as they wanted. The government would put up signs of farmers with potatoes the size of cars and cabbage to large to carry, this got farmers excited because this was during the great depression and they saw it as a way to help their family. The invention of tractors that would farm and plow land also caused tons of damage towards the Dust Bowl. Instead of farmers being able to plow one acre a day with a horse they could not plow up…

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    The Hoover Dam

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    On April 20, 1931, construction of America's savior of the Great Depression began. That day began one of America’s greatest engineering achievements and that has forever amazed the world with it’s ingenious ingenuity and structure of design. The Hoover Dam was by far the greatest achievement of mankind during the turn of the twentieth century. Due to the Dam’s concave structure, it gives off an arch-gravity design that allows the water of the Hoover Dam to become divided in an ingenious way. The…

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    adding to the large sum of debt farmers had accumulated during the depression of 1873. In order to combat the large companies and get a say in government, groups like the Grange and the Farmers’ Alliances were created. The Grange, also known as the Patrons of Husbandry, was the first major farm organization, making it’s appearance during the 1860’s shortly after the Civil War. The Grange’s popularity soared when the depression hit, causing a major decline in farm prices, and from there the…

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    Why Did Japan Enter Ww2

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    like during World War II, and what its consequences were after losing World War II. Understanding what Japan was like back then can help us understand what shaped its culture into what it is now. Before World War II, Japan had been in a financial depression for about fifteen years. Because of the lack of…

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    The Great Depression is considered to be the biggest and longest economic recession of the 20th century. The Great Depression lasted for nearly 10 years. It started because of the stock market crash of 1929. By 1933, around 13 to 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of the country’s banks had failed. President Hoover’s administration tried supporting failing banks in hopes that the banks in turn would loan to businesses allowing owners to hire back their employees. But the…

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    era of the Great depression people, such as John Fulmer, struggled to keep afloat the economic crisis that was brought on by buying on the margin. The year 1933 was the defining year in 20th century American history because of the president 's economic plan, The New Deal, as well as the Dust Bowl on farmers and overlooked discrimination. These events from 1933 changed people 's opinions on economic troubles, domestic and nondomestic, and discrimination towards others in the era of the Great…

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